Maroon 5?s ?Before Long? debuts at No.1
Ξ June 1st, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Album Release, Billboard, Blogger, Celebs, Hip-Hop, Hit Song, Maroon 5, Music, Music People, New Records, New Single, Rock, Songs |
Pop band Maroon 5′s first album in four years opened at No. 1 on the U.S. charts Wednesday, while veteran rocker Ozzy Osbourne scored a personal best with his first release in six years.
Maroon 5′s “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long” sold 429,000 copies in the week ended May 28, according to Nielsen SoundScan data. The group’s prior best sales week came in December 2004, when its 2003 debut, “Songs About Jane” sold 138,000.
Maroon 5 currently also rules Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart with “Makes Me Wonder”.
The group sold 102,000 copies of its new album digitally, breaking a record set last week when rock band Linkin Park’s “Minutes to Midnight” moved 84,000 via that format to debut at No. 1. The latter album fell to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 198,000, a hefty 68 percent sales slide.
Osbourne flew in at No. 3 with “Black Rain”, which sold 152,000 copies. That’s only 1,000 fewer than the opening week for 2001′s “Down to Earth”, which entered at No. 4. Nearly a quarter of sales for “Black Rain” came from digital retailers, which offered early ticketing to this summer’s Ozzfest with pre-orders for the limited edition of the album.
Hip-hop trio U.S.D.A., Young Jeezy’s collaboration with Slick Pulla and Blood Raw, started at No. 4 with “Cold Summer”, which sold 95,000 units.
Rock troupe the Used’s “Lies for the Liars” bowed at No. 5 with 92,000, a chart high-water mark. The quartet’s last effort, 2004′s “In Love and Death” opened at No. 6 with 93,000.
Other debuts included the soundtrack to box office champ “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” at No. 14; Lil Boosie, Webbie & Foxx’s “Survival of the Fittest” at No. 17; the Bravery’s “The Sun and the Moon” at No. 24; and the Beach Boys compilation “Warmth of the Sun” at No. 40.